Praise for soccer star Leo Messi in new album of Yiddish songs for kids
Songwriter Jordan Wax’s previous album had heavier subject matter but here he shows that Yiddish culture can be silly, too
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When roast goose was a Hanukkah delicacy, and latkes were fried in its schmaltz
They were slaughtered before Hanukkah in order to render enough fat to last through the winter, when butter was scarce.
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New CD of Yiddish children’s songs by Vilna-born composer David Botwinik
The songs, performed by children and adults, cover the Jewish holidays, family and nature
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Yiddish culture shared mainstream racist stereotypes of the 1920s, new book shows
Even progressive Yiddish journalists and activists who protested anti-Black violence in the South used racist stereotypes
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New record label boasts young (and female) singers of cantorial music
The producers of ‘Khazones Underground’ hope this Ashkenazi musical genre can be revived, just as klezmer was
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VIDEO: Peter, Paul and Mary’s “Light One Candle” — in Yiddish
Three siblings of the musically renowned Mlotek family recently recorded a new translation of the Hanukkah song
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From Buenos Aires to Warsaw, ‘The Bride’ comes home
The painting by Maurycy Minkowski (circa 1920) was almost lost during the 1994 bombing of the AMIA in Buenos Aires
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Yiddishkayt LA and New Lehrhaus merge — but is it good for Yiddish?
Amid the excitement, the new partnership has aroused concerns about the future of Yiddish programming
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Musician-ethnographer Michael Alpert to receive Dreaming in Yiddish Award
Michael Alpert has been a pioneering singer, multi-instrumentalist, ethnographer and educator for over five decades
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Rabbi Mayer Moskowitz z”l, on Hasidic life in pre-war Czernowitz
The beloved rabbi and educator described in detail the Orthodox Jewish community of this once vibrant city
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From shtetl to synth: How Yiddish electronica found its rhythm
Josh ‘Socalled’ Dolgin and Chaia both aim to keep Yiddish vibrant without turning it into a museum piece
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Yiddish די קונסט פֿונעם ייִדישן מאָנאָלאָג און אַנדערע מיני־קורסן אויף ייִדיש‘The Art of the Yiddish Monologue’ and other mini-courses in Yiddish
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